Thanks for all the kind comments. Rita I love your colors and especially the narrower sashing. Looking forward to seeing Renatas surprize color in her log cabin.

Almost caught up--still sashing to do (white or other color? ). Last blocks done--log cabin. Pretty fast getting them done, pretty satisfied with results because I tried to work accurately every step and it paid off (well, maybe... we'll see when I square them up):

Rita, Your quilt looks wonderful. I don't see the problems you mentioned. At least you made all the pieced block styles and didn't cheat like one of us.

Hey, Rita! Is that a blue sky I see in the background??? I really like the balance among the colors in your quilt, especially how the blues in the QSTs make everything pop--great job!!! Rosemary, can't wait to see yours with sashing on--love the hand-dyes you did.

Thanks for the comments on dual feed, the dual feed balance feature, and how you compensate without dual feed. Please keep those comments coming!

Rita I love your quilt too.

Putting off sashing my quilt because I want to get on and get quilting my Too Loud/Dogrose 1, now I have worked out how to fill in the spaces I have designed - I am really pleased with how the design for the quilting has come out but it would be sooo much easier if I was hand quilting it, not machine I could really do with some help in learning how to develope continuous line quilting designs. any chance of another set of lessons on that subject do you think? Or are they there and I just haven't found them yet?

Rita, I am liking your quilt. I can't see chopped off star tips nor can I see any misaligned blocks. I think its great! I have "work" to do today. Time for month-end-reports. YUK! But getting back to this sampler quilt is the carrot-on-the-stick/impetus to get it done quickly. Its get seeing all these quilts coming together.

Looks wonderful, Rita! I love the addition of the blue QSTs.

Nancy

I got my sashing done this morning. I remember now why I always put corner-stones in between sashing strips - it's because I am so crap at matching up the vertical sashing strips. I made my sashing strips 1 1/2" so they have come out at 1" finished. I still have the sashing to do around the outside but that will have to wait as I have to finish quilting a quilt by Thursday evening. I wasn't happy with my orange and white QSTs so I replaced them with blue ones. Then I was not happy with my log cabin blocks so I replaced them with the discarded QSTs and I am much happier with it now. Who knows, maybe I will use the log cabin blocks in the border : I did also manage to cut off some of the tips of my saw-tooth stars - I guess I need lots more practice at that one. Happy sashing everybody.

loise98 wrote: Actually it was Renata's suggestion to use green, I just happened to have recently got a metre of nice clean green (not olive-y in colour) the said 'yes'

Rosemary, Your color choice for the sashing sounds wonderful. Good luck with making the fabric stretch!

My machine (Janome Mystyle 22) is too elderly/simple for duel feed, so I have to do it for it Once I place the matched up pieces under the foot and take the first couple of stitches, with the needle down (by hand, usually) I then make sure that the end pieces are lined up and hold onto both of them tightly together, if there is any discrepency, I add a little bit of tension and stretch them so that they match in length, then I continue sewing.

My maths for the sashing etc has been coming along, and I have found the perfect green to go with my yellow/orange/reds, bought on a whim, when I bought the blue skirt batik, the down side is that I have only one metre (40") and for my planned patterning I have absolutely no spare for mis-cuts, and I am trying to work out how much I have for a little sashing around the mini blocks.

I'm gone for a couple days and come back to too many posts to read, but enjoyed looking at the pictures of everyone's blocks. I use dual feed for all of my piecing too.

Renata, Coni, & Wendy your blocks are looking good. I use the Dual Feed on my Janome all the time for piecing blocks. It works great because it pulls the top and bottom through at the same speed.

Thanks, Rosemary, Nancy and Limbania! I just decided on my log cabin and brought in one more unconventional color, kind of a teal for one edge of the log cabin because there was only one dark fabric in the whole quilt (blue green). I'll have to measure to see if there is enough because it is three pieces of scrap fabric and not selvage-to-selvage. Then I found a surprise color in my stash that is unrelated to the other colors but I have a hunch it will work so I am throwing it the mix. We'll see...

Lois, you'll be happy to know everything came from my stash, have not shopped for a single piece and am pretty happy with the whole lot. If not, I'll just have to make another sampler quilt. Off to pressing fabrics and cutting!